If anyone asks me today what the three great virtues are that drive the world, I will list hypocrisy, lies and bullshit, the greatest of them being bullshit. Without these, there would be no hope left, people will lose faith in everything they cherish and yes, there would be no charity either because there will be no reason for it.Patience is one of the most difficult virtue to embrace. Humility and patience is what is needed in a good leader. Onceyou have proven yourself, you turn will come. Do it in an honourable way, you will truly be respected, just as Khalid did. You are destined for a great future if only you canAnwar Ibrahim’s right-hand man Mohamed Azmin Ali is purportedly set to ditch PKR and the Pakatan Rakyat coalition. Year in year out we have to bear this kind of internal politics of PKR. I am so tired of some of the personalities in PKR. Just go and leave us alone to carry on the battle against Umno and if worst come to worst the breakaway faction of PKR too. We voted for PR and not some egoistic personality in order to have a better Malaysia for our children and future generations of Malaysians to come.
Azmin, you are partially right. The PR has to move on. Let a group of people headed by you take on that job, while whatever fraud that had happened must be challenged, else come GE14 (if re-election is unsuccessful) the same tactics would be applied again and how much resistance can you put up? Remember, democracy was not won over night. You have to have dual approach – while the next GE is prepared for from now, let DSAI fight the questionable results. as one commenter has put it: if your daughter is raped, would you accept the rapist as your son in law? What is the guarantee that he will not rape your wife next? Once allowed to suppress, the goons in BN would continue the suppression, GE after GE. Fight it out, fight till the rakyat wins, but keep the long term objective in sight. I have heard many positive comments about you, but if you have something to say about the rally, please do not say it publicly and bring a negative picture to the entire PR. handle it the right way.
According to party sources, the 48-year-old politician wants to leave the coalition “due to his dissatisfaction over the allocation of Selangor state executive committee seats among Pakatan members.”
Not convinced? But that’s because we have all lived with lies for so long that we have come to believe them. Lies commission hope. So everyone lies. The politician lies when he promises us a future you and I know he will never deliver on. The economist lies because he knows if he spoke the truth, the entire truth, it would bring the economy to its knees. The Government officer lies because his job is to hide the truth behind bureaucratese. Long before the system crashes, as it does once in a while, all the symptoms are there for us to see. But few do. We use complex statistical models to obfuscate the simple fact that many nations are today not only consuming all that they have and more, but most are already hocked way into the future.
Faith is the biggest lie of all. The funny thing is we all know this but will never admit it. More people have been killed in the name of religion than by disease, hunger or natural calamity. Yet we still swear by faith. Who knows, if there was no faith, may be the world would be an even more dangerous place. And even as faith divides us into different religions, different communities it also unites us in our hypocrisies. That’s what ultimately makes the world a better place. Every lie makes life easier for you and me. Every bit of arrant nonsense we speak to console ourselves and each other in this despicably selfish, arrogant and greedy world makes life that much more bearable, gives us hope in the possibility of a better, more enriching life. So we romanticise love, dream of immortality, see science as a saviour that allows us to escape the pitfalls of our limitless avarice.
Every sexy new car we buy, every new model of phone we desire, every fashion accessory we acquire, every time we watch a filmed love story and cry, we enrich our myths. We convince ourselves we are but one step away from nirvana. But nirvana doesn’t come easy. Every disease we beat after years of research and experiment is instantly replaced by six new ones. And where do they come about? But ofcourse the enriched lifestyle we yearn for. So it’s the science, the very technology that helps us fight back our greatest fears that takes our lifestyle towards greater dread, more unknown dangers. The saviour is the killer. The killer, the saviour. And knowledge, in which we trust so much, keeps telling us every day that what we knew yesterday as true is no longer as true as we thought it was. The greatest wisdom, I think, lies in recognising that there is no wisdom. Each one of us discovers our truths through our own lives.
The problem begins when we try to pass on these truths to others. For my truth is not the same as my father’s and can never be the same as my son’s. Every truth lies embedded in the process of self discovery. In short, you find your own verities and they remain yours as long as you are around and then, one day, when like Puff the magic dragon you disappear, your truths go along with you. What remains is an unupdated Facebook page, a twitter ID gone silent, a book or a song you loved, a poem you carried in your heart, or a dream you once saw and never forgot. Or best of all, the love of a woman you lost, a child you watched growing up, an enchanting lie that died with you.
Yes, there is much to be said for hypocrisy, lies and the sheer artistry of bullshit. After all, that’s what creativity is all about. Making the ephemeral, eternal. Or at least trying to.
